One for the forum lawyers

[jdonn]

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080528/0134101246.shtml

[luke warm]

wow... i'm not sure the law should get involved in this, except to help this guy collect from paypal (assuming he didn't break the terms of service)

[kenrexford]

The use of fake names raises an eyebrow.

 

That said, I'm not sure how this guy should get in trouble. Corporations do this stuff all the time, in a manner of speaking. I'd like to be able, for instance, to hold every money transaction for one minute.

 

With a return of, say, a mere 5%, I'd want maybe $250,000 a year. That would mean that I would have to have about $5,000,000 in the bank. If $5,000,000 changed hands per minute, I'd have it. That's about $300,000,000 per hour, or $7,200,000,000 per day. I'd bet that about $7 Billion changes hands each day, when you add it all up.

[jtfanclub]

The use of fake names raises an eyebrow.

It doesn't just 'raise an eyebrow'.

 

If there's a "limit one per customer" for something free (and for Paypal it's actually a limit of two accounts per customer), and you use a fake name to get more stuff, you've committed theft at the very least, and in this case probably wire fraud to boot.

[kenrexford]

Actually, in Ohio one could, in theory, be extremely undecided about one's common law name changes.

[TimG]

Actually, in Ohio one could, in theory, be extremely undecided about one's common law name changes.

Could you vote using each of those names?

[ArtK78]

I am sure it comes under the heading of "theft by deception," or fraud.